Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:00:07 -0500
From: James Jordan 
Subject: RE: (urth) 5HC a good introduction to wolfe? (was Washington

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At 12:15 PM 4/15/2002, you wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
> > More: you are to think that he is an n-th generation clone of our own
> > beloved Gene Wolfe. (I believe it was John Clute who gave a canonical
> > list of arguments for that being Number Five's real name.)
>
>Really?  I thought the name thing was just a joke.  Not that the character
>is supposed to have any real relationship or resemblence to the real
>Wolfe.
>
>-Rostrum

         Methinks Dan'l is right. Gene Wolfe is pointing to the "heart of 
darkness" in everyman/woman, and using himself as an example. Number Five 
and Maitre are what Everyman could be -- and what Gene would be apart from 
saving grace. Remember: Wolfe believes in Original Sin. And there has been 
discussion here of the fact that evidently he has a "depressive 
personality." It all fits.

Nutria


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At 12:15 PM 4/15/2002, you wrote:

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Dan'l
Danehy-Oakes wrote:


> More: you are to think that he is an n-th generation clone of our
own

> beloved Gene Wolfe. (I believe it was John Clute who gave a
canonical

> list of arguments for that being Number Five's real name.) 



Really?  I thought the name thing was just a joke.  Not that
the character

is supposed to have any real relationship or resemblence to the 
real

Wolfe.


-Rostrum


        Methinks
Dan'l is right. Gene Wolfe is pointing to the "heart of
darkness" in everyman/woman, and using himself as an example. Number
Five and Maitre are what Everyman could be -- and what Gene would be
apart from saving grace. Remember: Wolfe believes in Original Sin. And
there has been discussion here of the fact that evidently he has a
"depressive personality." It all fits.


Nutria



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